ANSI <--> K&R conversion utilities

[Norman Diamond]

In article <229900005 at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

>Instead of worrying about ANSI-C to old-C translaters, why not just
>get ANSI-C compilers? 

Why not avoid the whole mess and just get Ada compilers?  :-I (irony)

>There are things (i.e. passing float parameters) that are impossible
>in old-C.

It was possible in old-C by wrapping it in a struct.  Just like arrays.

>In any case, the best-selling C compilers already have large hunks
>of ANSI-C in them.

Yes, but it doesn't much help people who have to use unpopular machines
which use poorly-selling C compilers.  I'm not in that boat, but on
their behalf, I urge you to use some sense.

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